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Blackbird Vineyards Napa Valley – In 2003 Michael Polenske bought the 10 acre (4 ha) Blackbird Vineyard from Mia Klein of SELENE Winery and immediately set about installing Aaron Pott (ex Quintessa, but cut his teeth at Châteaux TROPLONG-MONDOT and Latour Figeac in St. Émilion for five years) as winemaker. Whilst the majority of the […]

Masnaghetti Vineyard MapsAlessandro Masnaghetti is one of Italy’s leading wine journalists and aspartg from producing his monthly Enogea magazine has been spending the best part of the last 20 years painstakingly mapping in extraordinary detail, the vineyards in Italy’s leading wine production areas. On the back of the mapsRead More

Mark Thomas Lead-Free Crystal GlasswareMark Thomas director Thomas Zichtl says that its design aerates the wines just as well as much bigger glasses, while the double bend brings in additional stability due to a different stress ratio on the glass.Read More